Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Behagh, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Behagh
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.14334, -9.06050
- SMR number
- CL003-019----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Listed as ‘Enclosure complex’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A possible field system was visible on an Air Corps aerial photograph (V231/65) taken in 1954. On inspection in 1997 this was found to be an area of partially reclaimed rough outcropping rock at the W foot of Abbey Hill. No archaeological features were noted. According to the landowner some paddocks and sheep shelters had been cleared away some years previously. An arc of a possibly medieval enclosure, a small possible hut site and some lazy beds are visible on Ordnance Survey orthophotographs 2013-2018 in an area of rock outcrop surrounded by reclaimed fields.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL003-019----_01.jpg Ordnance Survey orthophoto 2013-2018
Revised by: Mary Tunney
Date of revision: 15 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.